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Longhornfan1024

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  1. How can you get embarrassed on a sports forum? Are you against analogies? I'm against stupid analogies.
  2. Should have walked away with at least one more goal, but I'll take it. Defend our turf and we are gold.
  3. Can the rational Pool fans get a handle on boner21? He's embarrassing himself in the Champions League thread.
  4. This isn't basketball. Maybe head over to the basketball forum to chat with them about rebounds so that you can stop embarrassing yourself over here.
  5. We suck so badly on the attack without Hazard and CHO on the field.
  6. If the ball bounces a little wider there aren't any Barca players to put it in the goal. That's why you track your man. Go watch the play again. If VVD tracks Messi and stays goal side instead of giving up on the play and the ball falls where it did, he's in position to play it out. If it goes wide right, the ball gets to Mane or another Pool player. If it goes where VVD was standing, it goes to a Pool player. The only way Messi gets an open shot on goal off of the rebound is if VVD lets him run free, which he did.
  7. Yeesh. This is not a good response.
  8. I'm not blaming him for a bounce of the ball. I'm blaming him for putting himself in a situation where the bounce of a ball could result in a goal against his team. He's the most expensive defender to play the game (I think that's still the case) and his team is playing in the Champions League semifinal against a team that doesn't screw up a lot of scoring opportunities. It's his job to continue with the play regardless of the odds that a ball might or might not bounce a certain way. Until the ball is out of play, in the hands of his keeper, or cleared down the field, he has to continue with the play. He didn't.
  9. You combine my wife to the left of me crying for the whole movie and the random Asian dude to the right of me saying "Whoa" or "Oh my God" at every scene and that was basically my experience the first time I watched it.
  10. Clearly you haven't seen all the porn.
  11. It doesn't matter if there's a low chance. It's his job to keep goals out. And Messi didn't give up on the play--he's watching the entire time to see how it develops. You also have to keep in mind that Messi and VVD have completely different roles to play there and that there are different risks to the way they approach those roles. If the ball hits off the ball and lands in a spot where Messi could score but he doesn't, the only cost to the team is one missed scoring opportunity. If VVD gives up on the play and fails to track his man because there's a low chance that Messi will score but Messi does get the ball, then his team has just given up a goal. Like I said above, the margin of error for a CB is incredibly small--one fuck up can completely change a game in a different way than a fuck up by an attacking player. VVD fucked up by not tracking Messi and the result was a second goal, which makes it much more difficult for Pool to move on and also changed the tone of the game with Pool playing with less intensity (I won't say they gave up, but it certainly hurt their morale a lot).
  12. In Avengers, Tony flew through a hole in space and used a nuke to destroy a portion of Thano's fleet. A guy who is as smart as Thanos and who plans like Thanos would take the time to find out who did that.
  13. And that uncertainty is why you track the man. He pulls up as soon as the ball goes past him. If he doesn't give up on the play, but tracks Messi and stays goal side, there is a much lower chance that Messi scores.
  14. That's why you don't give up on the play and let the best player in the world get between you and the goal. VVD overall had some good moments in the game, but the margin of error for a CB is incredibly small and two goals from open play resulted at least partially due to VVD losing focus or giving up on a play. That's on him and the criticism is warranted.
  15. Went to LeRoy and Lewis for lunch on Saturday and they had pulled lamb that was freaking insane. I hope it's a regular on the menu.
  16. This Messi guy seems like he's kind of good at those free kick thingies. He might be able to make something of himself.
  17. We went for the first time this weekend. It was good, but nothing mind blowing. But I haven't seen a ton of hype for it since it's opened (there was a ton before opening), so I'd say it's reputation is about spot on.
  18. They put together a litany of losers and expected to win. I love the high expectations and annual schadenfreude when they inevitably fail.
  19. Well, Rockets fans do need to use 20+ year old gifs because they don't have any more recent successes they can point to.
  20. Is Son injured? Where has he been today?
  21. Ajax looking like the Harlem Globetrotters out there versus the Spurs.
  22. I generally dislike the Warriors and agree that reffing in the NBA is atrocious, but if it results in Rockets fans bitching, I'll allow it. And can't we all just agree that Harden isn't good enough to win a title?
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